Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Controversy of Big Bird, the Clear Solution to All of Our Problems

As TheWall Street Journal puts it, “Sesame Street isn’t amused. Sesame Workshop,
a nonprofit educational organization that produces and owns the show, issued a
statement Tuesday saying ‘we do not endorse candidates or participate in
political campaigns. We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice,
have requested that the ad be taken down.’

“An
Obama campaign spokesman, Ben LaBolt, said the campaign is ‘reviewing their
concerns.’”

(Rumor
is they’re in talks with Big Bird’s imaginary friend, Snuffleupagus, whose
nonexistence fits in better with the mindset of the liberal left.)

Who
can argue with intellectuals like Haunter, who recently freaked out that “Romney
is trying to ban tampons. Omg. I’m not even kidding, someone go with me so we
can shoot him dead.” Or LiftedBoy_, who opined, “I crash that f*ck*ng airplane
that that f*gg*t n*gg* Romney, stab Mrs. Romney in her G*D D*MN esophagus.
& won’t stop until the cops come in.”

Certainly
not men like Westgate Resorts founder and CEO David Siegel, who
sent a message to all of his employees warning them that since “the economy
is falling apart and people like me who made all the right decisions and
invested in themselves are being forced to bail out all the people who didn’t,”
he’s just going to shut down his business should Obama be re-elected.

And
the guys running Darden Restaurants – which owns Olive Garden, Red Lobster and
LongHorn Steakhouse – who
have cut back on employee hours because of the additional burdens imposed
on them by Obamacare? Well what would they know about the measures needed to
get this economy ahead? They’re only businesspeople after all!

The
same, of course, goes for Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn, who’s
not shy about his political leanings these days. “I’ll be damned if I want
to have him lecture me about small businesses and jobs,” he declared. “I’m a
job creator. Guys like me are job creators and we don’t like having a bull’s eye
painted on our back.”

Knowing the all-knowing, all-seeing,
all-powerful President Obama, his response to guys like that – and the larger
American public – would be “better them than Big Bird.”